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On 7/10 we received an email from Twitter stating that we have been banned from advertising with them because we violate their “weapons

policy”. After the staff here at Urban Ops wept for many hours and tweeted our deep sorrow to the masses we shrugged it off . Honestly, we rarely advertise with them. Although it was very annoying to see that they even have a “weapons” policy, which basically states in other words, guns are evil rocket firing machine-gun-bazookas and are just bad and even though we only sell magazines and butt stocks (and the related) we are still evil and cannot advertise with them. We moved on and made fun of it for a while, no biggie.

I’ll set the scene for this one….

It was a dark and muggy morning, the winds were howling and the temperature was rising. The rain bounced off the window as the alarm began to beep. I struggled to wake up. Putting on my glasses I looked at my phone to see 26 emails waiting for me. As I started to scroll through them, a particular subject line stood out, “Ad’s not running due to AdWords Policies”. A friendly hello welcomed me to the email, and I began to read the email. Google informed me that our site (not our ad’s) violated their polices on “weapons” and “until you correct this issue you will be banned from Google adwords.” A yell radiated throughout the house as my blood pressure was rising.

I reviewed their “weapons police” and apparently everything but the kitchen sink is banned. The first line is great, “Google AdWords doesn’t allow the promotion of weapons or devices designed to cause serious harm or injury. The promotion of weapons includes guns, gun parts or hardware, ammunition, bombs, knives, throwing stars, and brass knuckles.”

Right away I searched some of our key words and bingo, the ban hammer was in full affect, but strange enough multiple competitors were still showing up! Our first reaction was, one of our ad’s must be in violation, but after speaking with Google they informed us otherwise. Because our site “references or displays weapons, weapon parts, magazines and the like” we are in violation of their new advertising policies and cannot advertise with Google.

They did offer a simple solution to us, “just remove all items that violates our policies and we will let you back on.”

So you’re telling me to remove magazines, butt stocks, grips, optic mounts, and anything else related to a gun part or gun and we will be good to go? (Here’s all the evil gun gear)

“yes”

We laughed….

So here is my issue with all this. You kill our ad’s because our site, not our ad’s, but our site is related or has gun parts and accessories on it. You know, the items that we provide to our customers who are military operators, law enforcement officers. The items that help them get their job done and stay safe. You won’t allow us to be listed on Google, where 90% of people search for our products. However I can find out how to make drugs, find sites for child porn, and the best one yet, learn how to kill someone and not get caught. Way to be accepting Google… You reviewed our situation 3 times now, glancing over the fact that we are a military and law enforcement provider, supplying our men and women in uniform with the gear they need and still just give us a big ol BAN!

We ask that our customers, and all of our loyal fan let people know we are still here. We are still supplying our military operators and law enforcement officers everyday with the gear they need. Share our info or this story on your Facebook or what ever it may be. Let everyone know we are still alive and kicking! A big thank you to our fans who have already started to email Google.

We are going to keep fighting until this is resolved. Google, can not tell us that we do not have the right to list items on our site. This is nothing but a political game that is being played and we will fight on.

So Google, you jumped on the “ban” wagon that Twitter started this week with us, so you both have joined the Feinstein club.

We will continue to keep everyone posted on our Facebook and Twitter. We will not stop the fight! Just another way to tread on our 2nd Amendment!